linux-ext4 - [PATCH 4/4] Fix ext4 acl routines to handle transaction allocation failures.

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Date:	Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:28:32 -0800
From:	Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@...il.com>
To:	ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	mkatiyar@...il.com
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] Fix ext4 acl routines to handle transaction allocation failures.

Following patch updates ext4 acl routines to allow failures during
journal transaction allocation.
Also update the error path to frop acl handle in case of failures.

Signed-off-by: Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@...il.com>
---
 fs/ext4/acl.c |   12 +++++++-----
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/acl.c b/fs/ext4/acl.c
index e0270d1..0f7aac2 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/acl.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/acl.c
@@ -351,10 +351,9 @@ ext4_acl_chmod(struct inode *inode)

 	retry:
 		handle = ext4_journal_start(inode,
-				EXT4_DATA_TRANS_BLOCKS(inode->i_sb));
+				EXT4_DATA_TRANS_BLOCKS(inode->i_sb), true);
 		if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
 			error = PTR_ERR(handle);
-			ext4_std_error(inode->i_sb, error);
 			goto out;
 		}
 		error = ext4_set_acl(handle, inode, ACL_TYPE_ACCESS, clone);
@@ -449,9 +448,12 @@ ext4_xattr_set_acl(struct dentry *dentry, const
char *name, const void *value,
 		acl = NULL;

 retry:
-	handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_DATA_TRANS_BLOCKS(inode->i_sb));
-	if (IS_ERR(handle))
-		return PTR_ERR(handle);
+	handle = ext4_journal_start(inode,
+			            EXT4_DATA_TRANS_BLOCKS(inode->i_sb), true);
+	if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
+		error = PTR_ERR(handle);
+		goto release_and_out;
+	}
 	error = ext4_set_acl(handle, inode, type, acl);
 	ext4_journal_stop(handle);
 	if (error == -ENOSPC && ext4_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries))
-- 
1.6.0.4


-- 
Thanks -
Manish
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